Former attorneys for the Miccosukee tribe want to disqualify former state appellate judge Angel Cortiñas from representing the tribe at an upcoming sanctions hearing.

The attorneys seeking sanctions note Cortiñas worked for one of them, Dexter Lehtinen, and heard matters on related cases while on the Third District Court of Appeal. He left the court in May 2013. Lehtinen, Guy Lewis and Michael Tein want Cortinas to be kept out.